The toun is locatit alang Route 4, halfway atween the ceeties o Debrecen an Szolnok. It lees in the Great Hungarian Plain, thus its geografie is defined bi flat expanses. The toun is primarily surroondit bi agricultural zones. The estate centred on the Baroque manor hoose passed in the nineteent century tae the Hódosy an Borbély faimilies afore it wis bocht bi the Horthy faimily. Miklós Horthy, Regent o the Kinrick o Hungary frae 1920 tae 1944, wis born here an reburiet here efter the Revolutions o 1989, the dissolution o the Warsaw Pact an the athdrawal o Roushie/Soviet troops. His will statit that he wis no tae be returned thare till "the last Roushie sodger has left.".

The dounset wis grantit toun richts in 2004. The toun haes a population o 5329 fowk, wi a densitie o 47.9 /km². The majority o the inhabitants is ethnically Hungarian.